In High School, I didn't get to see a computer until after the introductory computer science course. And so I would assume that the basics are trivially the sam

In High School, I didn't get to see a computer until after the introductory computer science course. And so I would assume that the basics are trivially the same, no matter which compiler is chosen to go along with it. e.g. Stanford switched from Scheme to Python, using the same work book anyway. Does that tell you anything? Probably that there's a Lisp in every language.